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Article #839Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
From: Marcus J. Ranum
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 21:25
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 21:25
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>Then there's the famous story about the time they were building CIA >headquarters, and a local real estate developer wanted to know how >many employees would be housed there, so he could plan some residential >developments nearby. He was completely stonewalled, so he called the >Soviet Embassy and they told him. They had it just about dead on. This story made my brand new Capt. Kelly bullshit detector explode violently, and was only by sheerest luck that nobody was injured. I was going to say "it's an urban legend" but it's not even as believable as crocodiles in the sewers. mjr.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!decuac!hussar.dco.dec.com!mjr From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret! Message-ID: <1992Sep1.212509.28555@decuac.dec.com> Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: hussar.dco.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center References: <1zhng-h.strnlght@netcom.com> <1992Sep1.194851.2062@bcars64a.bnr.ca> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:25:09 GMT Lines: 13